God did not form the universe with His hands. The only thing God lowered Himself to form personally was man. Everything else, God spoke into existence, and even before God created man in His own image, He said, "Let us…" So there was nothing created without the Word of God. John tells us that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, WAS the Word of God, the very creative force that transferred what was in God’s mind in the unseen to what we can see, hear, touch, taste, and smell.
There was a time when the people of Babel were united in one speech, and they were able to accomplish whatever they agreed upon. They began to succeed in building a tower to reach in to Heaven, which was not God’s plan, so guess how He stopped them… Instead of changing the laws of physics, destroying the tower, or killing them, God felt that the most effective way to humble them was simply to confuse their language, disabling them from accomplishing whatever they agreed upon, because they could not agree with chaotic speech. Since Jesus’ time, the world has been united in common languages such as Latin, Greek, and now English, not to mention the countless programs and translators that make worldwide unity possible.
Paul wrote that God gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist, like when He called Abraham a father of many nations before he had even had one child. Jesus’ brother James taught that blessing and cursing are in the tongue, and he also wrote that the only reason we don’t have something is because we have not asked for it or because we have asked for fleshly, selfish, wrong motives. Jesus Himself taught that whatever we agree upon and ask for in Jesus’ name, believing we will receive it, will show up. He said that somebody with faith the size of a mustard seed (and no doubt canceling out the faith) can make a mountain move by telling it to. In other words, we also create with our anointed words of faith.
We are made in God’s image, predestined to be like Jesus Christ, the creative, living Word of God, and we are indwelt with God’s Holy Spirit, who empowers the words we say. Let us not give life to whatever we see, hear, or feel at any given time, even when it is negative, because that would be submitting to our environment and perpetuating it. Let us give life to dead things by telling our obstacles to be removed and replaced by bridges and tunnels to blessing. Let us speak death to anything that destroys and life to anything that builds up.
Whether or not we see God’s name being sanctified, let us announce Father, your name is sanctified, Whether or not we see God’s Kingdom coming and His will being done on Earth as it is in Heaven, let us declare that Heaven IS coming to Earth, and we will thereby heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons, preparing the way for Christ’s return.
